fatality UK /fəˈtælətɪ/US /feɪˈtælɪti/ noun7 •That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities? — 1851 •A person killed. •An accident that causes death.the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking... — 2011 •Death. •Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. •A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent. •The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. formsfatalities